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SUBORDER HETEROSTRACI

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fish-like vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear

Synonyms:

Heterostraci; suborder Heterostraci

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("suborder Heterostraci" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder Heterostraci"):

heterostracan (extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian)

Holonyms ("suborder Heterostraci" is a member of...):

order Ostracodermi; Ostracodermi (extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear)

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